I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
turns out to be a pig in a poke
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What if the car you buy turns out to be a pig in a poke ?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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Now, they dragged one of the local lochs and they poked about in the river but they found nothing.
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Somebody was in there, poking about .
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Charlie told me it wasn't nothing for them to get through twenty nicker poking about in the shops.
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Tam had complained earlier about how he was for ever sneaking up on them and poking about while they were building the fence.
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Lee was poking about , knocking dusty packets of seeds off the shelf and moving flower pots.
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He wouldn't take kindly to an outsider coming to interfere and poke about .
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My husband likes to poke about in the woods.
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A marabou stork was poking about nearby in a pile of rubbish, and I gave it a wide berth.
along
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Would you expect him to poke along in the slow lane?
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Old fogey that I am, after that I stayed in the slow lane, poking along at 80 or 90.
around
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By its light, he poked around in the charred remains of the nestboxes.
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Fakhru went to the wastebasket and poked around with his finger.
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Why not let me poke around quietly?
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In the harsh air she poked around in the flowerpots and bushes by the front door.
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I shan't inspect the harness, I shan't poke around the stables.
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After that he'd spent a lot of time with Jekub, poking around , finding out about it.
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If the dahabeeyah had had an engine-room Owen could have imagined him poking around happily in it.
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I poked around in the kitchen, checking out the fridge, the freezer and the cupboards.
out
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Numerous sponge bags hung on pegs, some with rubber ducks poking out !
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By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out , the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy.
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A slim frame but tight little muscles there poking out from under the rolled-up sleeves.
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Belts were slung around both their hips, guns poking out of the holsters.
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It poked out from the edge of the fallen slab.
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Sort of round and with little things poking out .
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One of my socks is poking out from where the two zips meet, like a floppy white hernia.
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Many of them were the tops of volcanoes poking out of the ocean, and most were surrounded by deadly coral reefs.
through
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He is himself fresh snow, and the baby shoots poking through .
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The top stick of dynamite is covered with earth, leaving the wire poking through .
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The plastic dimpled, and a silvery point poked through .
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Smoke rose out of the crooked chimneys that poked through their roofs, white wisps trailing north with the wind.
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At the heads close-cropped to combat the lice and the holey jumpers with elbows poking through .
up
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The muzzle of a gun poked up - would they be caught in crossfire?
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With wet clothes clinging to her back, she looked skeletal, her shoulder blades poking up like sharp crags.
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I don't understand how you think, and I can't poke up with all this anger and jealousy.
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He pulled at it with his hand and it poked up from his skull.
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We pass some strangely shaped mountains that must have been volcanic plugs poking up through vast panoramas.
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I looked up then and saw the head of a wasp poking up from the top of a candle on the altar.
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There were ends of broken rattan poking up .
■ NOUN
eye
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It felt like somebody was trying to poke his eye out from the inside with a pencil.
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Then one day doctors saw no corneal reflex when they poked her eye with a cotton tip.
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I decided to poke his eye too if he shouted or smacked me.
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He cut her throat, stabbed her in the stomach and tried to poke out her eyes with his fingers.
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And then, when I was really unconscious, he poked my eyes out.
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To make his intentions clear he will point energetically at your car and then poke himself in the eye .
finger
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Suddenly inspired, she leaped at him and poked her fingers into his eyes.
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Fakhru went to the wastebasket and poked around with his finger .
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She poked a finger into the luggage beneath her eyes, stretching the skin, trying to make it look young again.
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Getting feedback about your writing can be as pleasant as poking your finger into a food grinder.
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Okay, he poked a finger at me in Czecho.
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I poked my finger into his fist and felt him close his hand around it.
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We stroked the silky Rue de Rivoli lining, poked our fingers into exit wounds.
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I poke a finger into it; still cold.
fun
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Others, abandoning the usual Republican reverence for big money, poked fun at his inherited millions.
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A whole category of jokes has been created to poke fun at Microsoft and its operating system, Windows 95.
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He spoke often of Eliot, trying from time to time to poke gentle fun at him.
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My friends poke fun at me by calling me a bully.
head
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Some shuffle and bustle along, with stiff, tense movements, head poking forward.
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A giant cat's head poked out.
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I looked up then and saw the head of a wasp poking up from the top of a candle on the altar.
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Don't allow your head to poke forward.
nose
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Or maybe they resented a stranger poking his nose into their affairs?
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He merely watched the obscure corners of the busy planet and poked his stubby nose into dusty crannies.
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So he poked his nose through the letterbox.
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I didn't really want her poking her nose in anyway.
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Not like you to poke your big nose into areas that don't concern you.
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Not her national monument I told her, and she shouldn't come poking her nose in where it wasn't wanted.
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He poked his nose outside to see if he could tie off the cord.
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Didn't he ever stop talking, poking his nose in?
rib
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Ted said, poking Petey in the ribs .
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Bobby poked him in the ribs .
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Polly poked me in the ribs and I nodded at her and smiled.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pig in a poke
stick/poke your nose into sth
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No one wants the government sticking its nose into the personal business of citizens.
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Or maybe they resented a stranger poking his nose into their affairs?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Careful with that stick! You nearly poked me in the eye.
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Sherman poked his camera through the curtains.
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Someone poked me in the eye during basketball practice.
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The boys poked the fish with sticks to see if it was still alive
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By its light, he poked around in the charred remains of the nestboxes.
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I poked my head under the dripping awning of a newsstand and asked the proprietor.
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I shan't inspect the harness, I shan't poke around the stables.
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Instead, they stayed inside and poked their arms through the bars for their food, just out of reach.
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It's time you scrapped your overwritten early loves and learned to poke fun at the real thing.
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The muzzle of a gun poked up - would they be caught in crossfire?
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With wet clothes clinging to her back, she looked skeletal, her shoulder blades poking up like sharp crags.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fun
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In fact, one of his most endearing qualities was his ability to puncture his own pomposity and poke fun at himself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I gave dad a poke to wake him up.